Inge to England
As often in the past, the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge ("The Gloomy Dean"), former Dean of St. Paul's, made an unpopular point. Said he of the Continent's bomb-shattered cathedrals: "What a plane does, striking blind in a few seconds, will be remembered against us for all time."
Blood and Crowd Collector
Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, maestro of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, familiarized himself with the instruments of a Red Cross mobile blood-collecting unit. Touring Minnesota with the unit between concerts, he sometimes doffed the rubber gloves of an orderly to draw...